Reserve No 168 Ordinance 1875 (C)

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Preamble

WHEREAS by Grant from the Crown bearing date the 24th day of July 1865 all that piece or parcel of land in the Province of Canterbury in the Colony of New Zealand situate in the Timaru District and containing by admeasurement 10 acres more of less being Reserve numbered 168 (in red) on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province of Canterbury setting out and describing the rural land in the Timaru District aforesaid with all the rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging was granted unto the Superintendent of the said Province of Canterbury and his successors in trust as a site for a Cemetery: AND WHEREAS by the Public Reserves Act 1854 under and by virtue of which the aforesaid grant was made it is enacted that the specific purposes for which any lands granted under the said Act within any Province should be held might be changed and the same lands might be appropriated to other and different purposes of public utility for the public service of such Province: AND WHEREAS it has become necessary in respect of the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto: and being part of the aforesaid land to alter the purpose for which the same is held as hereinafter described.

1Specific purposes for which land is held shall be changed

The specific purpose of public utility for which the land hereinbefore described is held shall be and is hereby in so far as it affects the portion of the said land described in the Schedule hereto changed and the parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto shall be henceforth held by the Superintendent of the said Province and his successors in trust for the purposes of a Fire Brigade Station.

2Title

This Ordinance shall be intituled and may be cited as the Reserve No 168 Ordinance 1875.

Schedule

All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement 17 perches more or less being part of Reserve No 168 (in red) bounded on the eastward by the South Road on the northward by the site for Mechanics' Institute on the southward by a line parallel to the northern boundary and 54 links distant therefrom and on the westward by a line at right angles to the southern boundary and 2 chains distant on the average from the South Road before mentioned.